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Assistant Secretary-General, UN Environment to speak on climate action at #RBSNY next March 18-19 Satya Tripathijoins CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands to discuss how to lead the change to Read more

Mayors of the City of Philadelphia, Hoboken and New Bedford to speak at #RBSNY next March 18-19 Leading US mayors join CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands to discuss how Read more

SMi Reports: Key industry players to discuss financing infrastructure in the Benelux region at the 17th annual Benelux Infrastructure Forum next month in Amsterdam. Like most economies, the Benelux region relies heavily on international investment Read more

SMi Reports: Ørsted, the largest energy company in Denmark and one of 17+ expert speakers at Benelux Infrastructure Forum 2018,plan offshore wind farm to power 1 million homes. Denmark-based renewable energy company Ørsted has recently Read more

SMi Reports: The European Commission, Parliament and Council have reached anagreement for increasing renewable energy use in Europe, as the European Commission prepares to speak at the 17th annual Benelux Infrastructure Forum. In recent news, Read more

The greatest similarity between Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is arguably their hydropower potential. Africa’s two largest rivers flow between their borders, with a major source of the Nile in Ethiopia, and the Congo Read more

Valmont Industries (Valmont) has acquired majority stake in Convert Italia, a company that provides solar tracker solutions. The transaction was funded with cash on hand. The Company expects the acquisition to be slightly EPS accretive Read more

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a Request for Information (RFI) to seek input from public over the existing capabilities and needs of national-level offshore wind research and development (R&D) test facilities. This Read more

Enel Green Power RSA, the South African subsidiary of Enel has secured loans of up to €950m from Nedbank Limited and Absa for a five wind farm portfolio in South Africa, totaling 700MW. The loan Read more

NextEra Energy through its subsidiary NextEra Energy Resources has started construction on the $200m Sholes Wind Energy Center, a 160MW wind farm located in the US state of Nebraska. The Sholes Wind Energy Center, which Read more

Entergy has agreed to sell the 680MW Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Massachusetts and the 800MW Palisades Power Plant in Michigan to a subsidiary of Holtec International, the company responsible for the decommissioning of the Read more

US-based clean energy producers Exelon Generation has signed an agreement to sell its Oyster Creek nuclear-generating station to Holtec International. Financial details of the acquisition have not been divulged by either of the companies.Located about Read more

GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has been chosen by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to lead an advanced nuclear technology development project for its BWRX-300, a 300MWe small modular reactor . The project team consists Read more

Russian state corporation Rosatom has commenced the main construction of the Unit 2 of 2,400MW Rooppur nuclear power plant (NPP) in Bangladesh. Located in Rooppur village of Ishwardi Upazilla, 160km from Dhaka, the Rooppur plant Read more

CGN Power, a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation (CGN), has completed trial run of the Unit 5 of the 6.4GW Yangjiang nuclear power plant (NPP) in Yangjiang, south China’s Guangdong Province. The firm Read more

Macquarie Infrastructure (MIC) has entered into a deal with an undisclosed party to sell the Bayonne Energy Center, a 644MW gas-fired power plant in New Jersey, for about $900m. The company said that the transaction Read more

National Power Parks Management Company (NPPMCL) has placed the Balloki Power Plant, a 1,223MW gas-fired plant in the Pakistani province of Punjab, into service after wrapping up all commissioning works and performance-related tests. Balloki Power Read more

Equinor Energy has given a feasibility study contract to Jacobs Engineering Group to assess the possibility of constructing a hydrogen production plant in the Netherlands. The Norwegian company also wants to assess whether CO2 capture Read more

Siemens and State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) of China entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further confirm intention of technology collaboration in the field of heavy-duty gas turbines. Joe Kaeser, President and CEO Read more

GE Power has been awarded a contract to provide advanced boiler and steam turbine technology for the 660MW ultra-supercritical power plant in Deh Ghangiaro, Bin Qasim, Karachi, Pakistan. Said to be the country’s first of Read more

GE Power has been awarded a $1.6bn contract by Elektrownia Ostrołęka to build 1,000MW ultra-supercritical (USC) coal power plant in the northeast of Poland. Under the contract, GE Power will be responsible for designing and Read more

Representatives from German industry, environmental groups and unions met Tuesday in Berlin to discuss how and when the country can stop using coal to generate electricity.Climate scientists have called for Germany to do more to Read more

A Chicago-based company says it is putting together a proposal to buy the coal-fueled Navajo Generating Station and save hundreds of jobs and funding for Native American tribes. Joe Greco, senior vice president of Read more

The Hopi Tribe and coal mining groups on Tuesday sued the operator of an Arizona aqueduct system to try and keep a coal-fired power plant running beyond 2019. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Read more

While various organizations race to complete small-scale modular nuclear reactors, the U.S. Department of Energy is hoping to do the same thing with coal. The DOE issued a request for information for input on the Read more

German state-owned bank KfW, on behalf of the German Federal Government, has agreed to acquire 20% stake in Eurogrid International, the holding company of German TSO 50Hertz. KfW’s acquisition follows the exercise of pre-emption rights Read more

US-based independent solar power developer 8minutenergy Renewables has energised Phases 1 and 2 of the 328MW-dc Mount Signal 3 (MS3) solar photovoltaic (PV) project. Located in the city of Calexico in California’s Imperial Valley, the Read more

GE’s Grid Solutions has wrapped up an electricity transmission system project in Ethiopia by delivering 11 HV substations to Ethiopian Electric Power. The electricity transmission system project, which saw an investment of $40m, will help Read more

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) is planning to award AED11.4bn ($3.1bn) worth of contracts for the construction of 91 substations in the Emirate over the next three years. DEWA will award the contracts Read more

Swiss technology company ABB has secured an order to upgrade Transpower, New Zealand’s high-voltage direct current (HVDC) link that interconnects the transmission grids of the North and South islands.Said to be an important element of Read more

The Federal Aviation Administration granted approval to Xcel Energy for drone flights beyond the operator’s line of sight. Xcel is now the first utility with that capability and will soon use it to survey transmission Read more

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry is establishing a new Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response at the U.S. Department of Energy. $96 million in funding for the office was included in President Read more

Geospatial Insight Limited, Europe’s leading provider of satellite-derived alternative data, independent research and image analysis, today announced the launch of TankWatch, a new monitoring service which represents a significant development in the facility for global Read more

GE and Arenko Group announced a strategic alliance to build grid scale energy storage systems in the UK, starting with a 41 MW battery energy storage system. The two companies are calling this project one Read more

SMi Reports: Key industry players to discuss financing infrastructure in the Benelux region at the 17th annual Benelux Infrastructure Forum next month in Amsterdam. Like most economies, the Benelux region relies heavily on international investment Read more

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National Power Parks Management Company (NPPMCL) has placed the Balloki Power Plant, a 1,223MW gas-fired plant in the Pakistani province of Punjab, into service after wrapping up all commissioning works and performance-related tests. Balloki Power Read more

The World Bank Group (WBG) has helped boost Cameroon’s hydropower capacity by approving a $794.5m investment package for Nachtigal project in the country. The investment will enable Cameroon to achieve its goal of providing electricity Read more

Invenergy’s subsidiary Invenergy Japan GK has completed financing with the MUFG Bank (MUFG) and NEC Capital Solutions (NEC) for Koumi Kogen Solar Energy GK, the first of two large-scale joint solar projects in Japan. This Read more

Assistant Secretary-General, UN Environment to speak on climate action at #RBSNY next March 18-19 Satya Tripathijoins CEOs and business leaders from North America’s most innovative, responsible brands to discuss how to lead the change to Read more

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